Beam Me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/18/2009 5:15:58 PM PST by DukeBillie
Senior Obama administration officials describe quite a dramatic scene at Climate Change Conference.
Officials say President Obama was frustrated. The conference was in complete chaos.
At about 730 pm Denmark time – the president was supposed to have left an hour before -- he learned that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, with whom he was supposed to meet, was meeting with the leaders of India, South Africa, and Brazil – the main players holding up any sort of political agreement.
The president heard about this and said he wanted to go to the meeting.
“Four against one,” an official said to the president.
“No problem,” he replied.
A senior administration official says the president “barged into the meeting,” where he joined China’s Wen, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and South Africa's President Jacob Zuma.
The reporters’ pool note from that time said that President Obama walked into the room and called out from the door, “Mr. Premier, are you ready to see me? Are you ready?”
They talked for roughly 45 minutes and emerged with a non-binding political accord. It is a modest achievement, officials concede, but they insist it is an achievement nonetheless.
“It is undeniably a step forward,” said an official. “Is it two steps forward? I’m not making that case.”
The president was unable to get the four leaders to commit to a deadline of 2010 for a legally binding international climate change treaty. South Africa and Brazil have an ensured capital flow under the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012, so they balked at giving that up until they knew what they’d be giving it up for.
What does the accord accomplish?
• All signatories will agree to slow global warming by allowing a temperature increase of no more than 2 degrees Celsius by 2050. How emission reductions will be achieved will be dictated by science – theoretically this could require greenhouse gas emission cuts of more than 50 percent.
• In terms of verification – what the Chinese in particular had been resisting – all countries will commit to publicly list the actions they will take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and they commit to a mechanism for some sort of public verification.
• Countries will consult with an international mechanism which will analyze their progress against a clear guideline as to whether they are abiding by their agreements.
Obviously the devil is in the details and we are still awaiting those details.
Barf
Barged into the meeting? Where’s security when you need them?
No wonder the ChiComs are pissed.
I'm relieved that these clowns have agreed not to raise the temperature of the earth by more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 40 years.
I mean, I can't TELL you how relieved that makes me feel. Just this afternoon, I was saying to my wife, "If only we could get Obama and the leaders of India, Brazil, South Africa and China to just agree not to raise the earth's temperature too much...
What an effin doofus!
Hooray! Obama stopped Global Warming today! To hell with the Chief!! Er uh, heil Obama!? Or was it hail to the chief?!? Whatever the saying is, I think you understand... he’s the most amazing thing since turds in a punch bowl!
I’m afraid I’ve fouled this whole celebration thing up. My bad.
I'm not.
That means that we're all going to spend 87.6123 kajillion dollars, the temperature will rise 3.3104 degrees F, and O'bama will take credit for it!
Given this is from ABC you can imagine how bad it actually went down.
President Obama walked into the room and called out from the door, “Mr. Premier, are you ready to see me? Are you ready? “
Did Obama bow to the Chinese premier?
The fact that they didn’t invite him to the meeting is a huge slap in the face, the fact that Obama lowered himself to beg to participate in a meeting to which he was not invited, is beyond disgusting.
The president of the US begging the Chinese to let him into a meeting... how low can you sink...
So desperate for a win he is. Here’s the problem for Obama: his credibility has taken a death blow.
You just can’t make stuff up indefinitely. That’s what killed Gore against Bush in 2000 remember?
The economy was on fire in 2000 but Gore said too many things that didn’t add up and lost cred. Obama has done that already. It’s all empty bullcrap and most know it.
Actually, there are many devils and most of them are in Copenhagen.
This sounds like another blow for the prestige of the United States- the President chasing other world leaders for some face saving “agreement”.
First rule of summits- have the agreement done before you deploy the head of state. Otherwise, don’t go.
His behavior is so crass. That description needs to be sent out far and wide. It is the epitome of a Chicago thug.
LOL! What a total crock. Who’s writing the press summaries now? Some 15 year old who’s been reading too many cheap novels?
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